Custom adapts itself to expediency.
TACITUSThings are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
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Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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